Mueller Report Confirms Intelligence Findings About Russian Meddling

Jean-Loup Chereau |Samedi, Avril 20, 2019

Robert Mueller

After a 22-month probe on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Special Counsel Robert Muellerconcluded Mr Trump's team did not conspire with Moscow. The attorney general was able to prespin the Mueller report before its release, both in his four-page letter to Congress and a news conference Thursday morning in which Barr repeatedly said the report found no collusion and defended the president's state of mind early in the presidency when much of the potential obstruction was going on.

The January 2017 unclassified assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Security Agency, issued in the aftermath of the presidential election, concluded Russian Federation aimed to "undermine public faith in the USA democratic process". Mr. Barr, in turn, has so far rejected that request, and Republicans have backed him up, arguing in effect that the Judiciary Committee is not entitled to such information unless the House authorizes a formal impeachment inquiry.

In particular, the report outlines how Trump told then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to inform the acting attorney general that Mueller should be removed in June 2017 - a demand McGahn ignored.

The Mueller investigation had previously charged 34 other people and three Russian entities, netting convictions or guilty pleas from several Trump associates including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen.

More than likely, we're not done with this report or Mueller.

"It's probably there [in the counterintelligence investigation] that maybe not collusion but maybe a sense of being compromised might emerge", he said. Worse, implicit in Barr's spin is the idea that the president's "sincere belief" was true - that the investigation was illegitimate - an inference belied by the report's detailed account of Russian election interference and of Trump campaign-Russian contacts. "For the haters and the radical left Democrats - Game Over". McGahn later told White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter that he had planned to resign rather than follow through on the order. While newsrooms across the country digested the report, the White House guests, already seated waiting for the president to arrive, were entertained by the U.S. Marine Band. "And it's clear that special counsel Mueller wanted the Congress to consider the repercussions and the consequences".

"This should never happen to another president again - this hoax".

Talking points went out to Trump allies while his supporters' phones buzzed with text messages from the campaign looking to raise money off Thursday's developments.

"We further assess Putin and the Russian government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump", the intelligence agencies wrote at the time, adding, "Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible".

Fire experts say the air water tankers President Trump suggested be used to douse the Notre Dame cathedral fire would have collapsed the 850-year-old structure. But still, Democrats feel, what you don't know is important, and even in areas without redactions, the underlying evidence contained in subpoenaed documents could be very important.

Though a seemingly backhanded exoneration, the younger Trump tweeted a series of attacks on Democrats.

U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks during a news conference, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in NY. Nadler said on Thursday.

The court in an unrelated case ruled that short of something like impeachment proceedings, Congress does not generally have a right to see that kind of secret information that's collected for use in the criminal justice system.

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